BANS
Definition of BANS
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Prohibition.
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A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
"Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice."
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The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
"France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated."
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To summon; to call out.
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To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
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To curse; to execrate.
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A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
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A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
Source: Wiktionary
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